CONTEXTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix 



CHAPTER 



XIII. Fokt Smith and the Social Queen 86 



Indian cabin, Fort Smith .... 88 

 Starving squaws looking for the return 



of the fisher boats 88 



XIV. Rabbits and Lynxes in the North- 



west 95 



XV. Ebb \\i> Flow of Animal Life . . 107 



XVI. Tin: Pelican Trip 113 



XVII. The Third Buffalo Hunt .... 116 



XVIII. Down to Fundamentals .... 125 



XIX. White Max and Red. Meat, but 



Nothing More 130 



XX. On the Ntakltng 136 



July camp on the Great Slave Lake . 136 

 The Nyarling Tessi or Underground 



River 136 



XXL Fort Resolution and Its Folk . . 143 



Sunset on Slave River 144 



Fori Resolution 144 



XXII. The Chipewyans, Their Speech and 



Writing 147 



XXIII. The Dogs of Fort Resolution . . 159 



XXIV. The Voyage Across the Lake . . 169 



Our party at Lockhart River . . 170 



